Luding (1C: WMS Logistics. Warehouse Management)

2021: Logistics Management Automation

AXELOT was working on Luding's integrated logistics management automation project based on WMS and TMS solutions developed by AXELOT. The implementation of the WMS system was carried out at the company's warehouse in Moscow.

It was noteworthy that the opening of the new Luding warehouse in Moscow coincided in time with the start of the project to introduce mass blast accounting for alcohol in Russia. Accordingly, the most relevant task was to control the movement of each unit of labeled alcohol products. But this task was far from the only one for the warehouse.

Among the 10,000 items in the warehouse, low-alcohol, soft drinks and tobacco products are stored along with alcohol products. To organize a transparent and managed warehouse process, functionality was required to maintain more detailed than in ERP, batch records, excise stamps and balances in the context of several legal entities.

At the time of the start of the automation project, Luding already had a well-established scheme for working with goods in stock. The new WMS was supposed to help optimize and modernize the established warehouse processes, without destroying them and not interfering with the changes taking place inside the warehouse. The AXELOT team was able to successfully solve the entire complex of non-trivial tasks of the customer.

Of course, the WMS introduced in the Luding warehouse performs all the functions inherent in this class of systems. However, the solution took over some of the functions that usually belong to ERP class systems. For example, WMS stores information directly about the ownership of each unit of goods by a specific legal entity from the Luding group of companies; each legal entity has a separate storage area. WMS also implemented automation of resale operations between its own companies. This approach significantly simplified the organization of operations in the warehouse in the conditions of multiple legal entities with licenses to work with different types of goods and compliance with the requirements of the regulator for licensing warehouse space.

Another example of the transfer of the ERP functionality to WMS is that the order-based batch reservation is performed on the warehouse system side. Reservation and selection of batches is made based on the requirements of the counterparty (multiplicity of the box, shelf life reserve, etc.), reserves for other orders, actual and accounting balances.

Separately, it is worth noting the implementation of functionality for working in the warehouses of Luding branches. Historically, inventory management automation is usually done on the ERP side, but in the case of Luding they decided to use WMS for this. Within one base, topologies, procedures and warehouse processes are established for each branch. Access to documents, directories, and registers is separated at the user level. During the project, the basic functionality of SCM was laid for managing the supply chain within the company and its branches and offline TSD technologies for remote warehouses were implemented. Solving, first of all, the problem of accounting for actual balances, I had to face the problem of the difference in the accounting balances of different systems.

WMS was integrated with AXELOT TMS, which was implemented in parallel. Integration was carried out through the DATAREON ESB data service bus. Also, the integration circuit of the enterprise included two corporate systems on various versions of the 1C: Enterprise platform.

The implementation of WMS with "hybrid" capabilities was dictated by the features and tasks of the client; The same approach to organizing processes and setting up WMS confirmed the efficient operation of the Luding ledger warehouse after the completion of the project. However, it is too early to make a point - the management of Luding has further plans to develop the functionality of the new WMS.